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<blockquote data-quote="urbanracer" data-source="post: 1785573" data-attributes="member: 140811"><p>I agree with this comment but it's not always clear what you will be paying for.</p><p></p><p>My employer's insurance scheme payed for me to present myself to a cardiologist. Turned out to be the same specialist who'd seen my mother under the NHS a couple of years before.</p><p></p><p>Initial consultation was 45mins long and he spent a lot of time asking questions that he wouldn't have had time for on the NHS clock. But the outcome was an expensive angiogram procedure that proved there was nothing wrong!</p><p></p><p>To this day I can't help wondering if the angiogram was completely necessary or if he perfomed the procedure because it was a quick buck. Guess I'll never know the answer to that.</p><p></p><p>And since I was forced to switch from NHS dental care to private, my dentist (same guy) spends as much time talking about rugby and the weather as he does looking at my teeth. As an NHS patient I was in and out in a flash with barely so much as 'Hi how are you?'</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="urbanracer, post: 1785573, member: 140811"] I agree with this comment but it's not always clear what you will be paying for. My employer's insurance scheme payed for me to present myself to a cardiologist. Turned out to be the same specialist who'd seen my mother under the NHS a couple of years before. Initial consultation was 45mins long and he spent a lot of time asking questions that he wouldn't have had time for on the NHS clock. But the outcome was an expensive angiogram procedure that proved there was nothing wrong! To this day I can't help wondering if the angiogram was completely necessary or if he perfomed the procedure because it was a quick buck. Guess I'll never know the answer to that. And since I was forced to switch from NHS dental care to private, my dentist (same guy) spends as much time talking about rugby and the weather as he does looking at my teeth. As an NHS patient I was in and out in a flash with barely so much as 'Hi how are you?' [/QUOTE]
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